I get the feeling that if you live in Montana it's probably because the idea of not having everyone up in your personal life appeals to you. Which is a kind of Republican ideology apart from the social conservative wing. I wish we had more of the former and fewer of the latter.

Barfmaker:Peter von Nostrand: So not being bigoted morons is noteworthy? What great progress we've made

"Hey, we don't suck as much as everyone thought! In your face libs!"

I think you miss the point. FTFA: "I never felt so accepted, and so helped." This given she was now in Billings and not Seattle.

I have lived in Seattle, and it used to be a great place before all the Californians moved up there. Just like Portland... and I will tell you what, it is the upitty, pretentious, hippy dippy, seattilite/portlandia, starbucks sucking libtards who are the most bigoted and closed minded people I have ever farkin met. Sixteen years in the military and I never encountered racism like in Seattle or Portland.

So of course she was surprised to be welcomed into that Billings community with open arms, now what I can't figure out is why she wants to enact the anti-discrimination ordinances after suffering no discrimination what-so-ever. Is she afraid more people are going to move to Billings from Seattle and ruin Montanna too?

scotchlandia:Just like Portland... and I will tell you what, it is the upitty, pretentious, hippy dippy, seattilite/portlandia, starbucks sucking libtards who are the most bigoted and closed minded people I have ever farkin met

"If they can't rent an apartment, they can buy a house," Kenat wrote. "If they can't get a job, they can start their own business. If they get denied by a business for services, they can find a competitor who will serve them. That's freedom and being held responsible for your choices."

indylaw:I get the feeling that if you live in Montana it's probably because the idea of not having everyone up in your personal life appeals to you. Which is a kind of Republican ideology apart from the social conservative wing. I wish we had more of the former and fewer of the latter.

scotchlandia:Barfmaker: Peter von Nostrand: So not being bigoted morons is noteworthy? What great progress we've made

"Hey, we don't suck as much as everyone thought! In your face libs!"

I think you miss the point. FTFA: "I never felt so accepted, and so helped." This given she was now in Billings and not Seattle.

I have lived in Seattle, and it used to be a great place before all the Californians moved up there. Just like Portland... and I will tell you what, it is the upitty, pretentious, hippy dippy, seattilite/portlandia, starbucks sucking libtards who are the most bigoted and closed minded people I have ever farkin met. Sixteen years in the military and I never encountered racism like in Seattle or Portland.

So of course she was surprised to be welcomed into that Billings community with open arms, now what I can't figure out is why she wants to enact the anti-discrimination ordinances after suffering no discrimination what-so-ever. Is she afraid more people are going to move to Billings from Seattle and ruin Montanna too?

I respectfully suggest that she is not the most articulate of lesbians ever, and that the reporter is not the most accurate of reporters ever, either.

Put another way: her quotes in the article are likely inaccurate, contradictory, cherry-picked, or some combination thereof.

"How is it that such a small group of people be granted special privileges over and above the rights and privileges afforded all of us by the Constitution and the Bill of Rights? I find it repulsive that any group of people who practices perversion and moral indecency be afforded any special privileges, let alone those that would put your children or my grandchildren at risk, are even considered."

Douglas is one of dozens of residents who have lobbied the Billings City Council on an issue it has yet to take up - a proposed non-discrimination ordinance that's scheduled for consideration this summer following the council's budget deliberations.

Sounded like a healthy attitude up until the part where she is pushing for a law to ensure 'they' aren't allowed the same freedom of choice to be or not to be a part of her life without the threat of legal ramifications.

"If they can't rent an apartment, they can buy a house," Kenat wrote. "If they can't get a job, they can start their own business. If they get denied by a business for services, they can find a competitor who will serve them."

As long as Billings has assholes like this wandering around loose, then yeah, it seems like a non-discrimination ordinance would be a good thing to have as an ace in the hole. Every statement he makes dribbles with complete idiocy, as if you squeezed Rush Limbaugh's ass-pustules and this guy arose from it.

indylaw:scotchlandia: Just like Portland... and I will tell you what, it is the upitty, pretentious, hippy dippy, seattilite/portlandia, starbucks sucking libtards who are the most bigoted and closed minded people I have ever farkin met

Riiight.

They do exist, but a larger problem may be the fact that there are so many white people in Portland that it just seems racist.

Hell, Portlanders don't hold a candle to the bigotry of the east side of the state toward Portland (or anyone from the valley).

JohnAnnArbor:Peter von Nostrand: So not being bigoted morons is noteworthy? What great progress we've made

Or maybe stereotypes are simplistic. At best.

There were two lesbians who had the only stationery store for quite a long time in Gardnerville, Nevada. Everyone knew they were "great and good friends" as the saying used to be. They had plenty of business, nobody hassled them, and that was that. One of the City commissioners was openly gay, and again, everyone knew it, he was never harassed AFAIK, and lived quite a normal life. He even hosted the annual pancake breakfast fundraiser for the volunteer fire department for many years and it was attended by the entire town.

You can't assume that just because a town is small and filled with white people that they automatically discriminate against teh homogheys.